Category: Preservation
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The U.S.S. Texas (BB35) is in serious trouble. For the past 69 years she has been a floating museum located at San Jacinto, TX, near Houston. Beginning in 2012, the ship began to develop serious hull leaks and now the stewards of the ship, the Texas Department of Wildlife and Parks, says that the Texas must either be relocated to a dry site or scrapped. See the full story here....read more

In honor of the centennial of World War I, the Spencer Research Library Blog is going to follow the experiences of one American soldier: twenty-year-old Forrest W. Bassett, whose letters are held in Spencer’s Kansas Collection. Each Monday the library will post a new entry, which will feature Bassett’s letters to fifteen-year-old Ava Marie Shaw from that following week, one hundred years after he wrote them....read more

The Robert and Elizabeth Dole Archive and Special Collections is accepting applications for an Archival Fellowship, in conjunction with the closing year of University of Kansas’ World War I Commemoration.

The Archival Fellow will work with Dole Archives staff to evaluate relevant archival holdings and develop a topic guide and online teaching module based on Senator Bob Dole’s career advocacy on behalf of Armenia. The final product will be used as an introduction to this topic for K-12, university, and general public audiences....read more

The Victory Eagle outside the main entrance of Dyche Hall at the University of Kansas

The Victory Highway was supposed to be a tribute to the American soldiers who lost their lives in World War I. It was a transcontinental road, stretching from New York to San Francisco. Across Kansas it would follow an already established route, the Golden Belt Highway. An association was formed in 1921 to create and promote the concept of the Victory Highway....read more

In that strange, distant land known as New Jersey, a bell tower is being restored in the community of Upper Montclair. It was erected in 1919, not only as a tribute to seven men from the area who died in the Great War, but as a “thanks offering for the return of those who served.” Seven of the bells bear the names of those who did not return....read more

This is the sort of story that we’re pleased to hear about. We hope we’ll hear of more just like it.

Lincoln Elementary School students have for two years been raising funds to restore a 1928 monument placed by the American War Mothers to Geary County World War I veterans. For the full story, let’s quote Dewey Terrill of www.jcpost.com on September 20th:...read more

When seeking out monuments and memorials to World War I, one might not immediately think of stained glass windows. But they are out there, and they may be among the more endangered memorials. Many could be in churches, as a tribute to either those members of the congregation who served, or to individuals who served and / or made the supreme sacrifice....read more

A program has been started to give grants of up to $2,000 for the preservation and restoration of World War I Monuments and Memorials. “100 Cities – 100 Memorials” will offer those grants to the first 100 who apply for them.